Research Catalog

Title

The Bellews of Mount Bellew : a Catholic gentry family in eighteenth-century Ireland / Karen J. Harvey.

Author

Harvey, Karen Jeanne.

Publication

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©1998.

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Details

Description

218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Ballou family
• Bellew, John, 1606-1679 > Family
• Bellew, John, 1606-1679
• 1700-1799
• Country life > Ireland > Galway (County) > History > 18th century
• Catholics > Ireland > Galway (County) > History > 18th century
• Gentry > Ireland > Galway (County) > History > 18th century
• Catholics > Legal status, laws, etc. > Ireland
• Catholics
• Catholics > Legal status, laws, etc
• Country life
• Families
• Gentry
• Galway (Ireland : County) > History
• Ireland > History > 18th century
• Moylough (Ireland) > History
• Ireland
• Ireland > Galway (County)
• Ireland > Moylough

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.

Contents

1. 'In Open Rebellion': The Seventeenth-Century Background -- 2. 'The Gavel, that Infernal Act': The Land, the Law and the Catholic Landed Gentry -- Securing the Land -- Profiting from the Land -- Improving the land -- Landlords and Tenants -- Living on the Land -- 3. 'We Must Part Our Native Lands': Military Service and Education -- Military Service -- Education -- 4. 'The Trade of Ireland Is All in the Hands of the Papists': Commerce and Trade -- Foreign Trade -- Galway Gentry-Merchant Families in the British West Indies -- Galway Gentry-Merchant Families in France -- Galway Gentry-Merchant Families in Spain -- Gentry Participation in Domestic Trade and Commerce -- 5. 'It Is Time for Us to Speak Out like Men': The Gentry and Catholic Relief -- Epilogue: 'To Preserve the Religion of Our Posterity'.

ISBN

• 1851823514
• 9781851823512

LCCN

98189938

OCLC

• ocm39681663
• 39681663
• SCSB-414968

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library